Cartridge-box



W. E. INGLIS.

CARTRIDGE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED ssrmzr, I919.

1,359,895. Pa tented Nov. 23, 1920.

WITNESS.-

INl-"ENTOR.

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WALTER E. INGLIS, OF BRIDGEPOBT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MES'NE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORA- TION OF DELAWARE.

CARTRIDGE-BOX.

Patented Nov. 23, 1920.

Application filed September 27, 1919. Serial No. 326,784.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER E. INeLIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge- Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

As is well known, cartridges, particu-.

larly those of the smaller sizes, are generally sold in small paper boxes containing about fifty cartridges, more or less, depending upon In shooting g'alleries and other places where cartridges are used in large quantities it therefore becomes necessary to open possibly hundreds of such boxes daily and it is therefore highly desirable, from this point of view, to furnish such cartridges in boxes so constructed that they can be readilyopened and their contents removed to a larger receptacle, and at the same time the boxes must be so made .that they cannot accidentally discharge their contents. I v

The average consumer of cartridges, however, uses only a few at a time and a box may last him for a long time. Therefore desirable that the-box may be opened and closed as often as desired without impairing its usefulness asa container for the remaining cartridges.

It'is an object of'my present invention to provide a receptacle forcartridges or similar articles which is so constructed as to be sufiiciently strong to resist the ordinary strains of handling and transportation and yet may be readily twisted or otherwise broken apart to permit the contents to be easily and quickly removed.

It is a further object to provide such a receptacle which may be readily opened and closed without destroying its usefulness as a container. I

More specifically it is an object to provide a receptacle adapted to contain articles such as cartridges in an upright position and to provide a series of perforations running around the receptacle substantially in a plane parallel to the longitudinal axes of the articles so that the receptacle may be readily severed at this point, because the articles themselves do not reinforce the receptacle and aid the material thereof in resisting severance at the line of theperfo'rations.

These objects have been obtained, for

example, in the receptacle shown in the attached drawings, wherein i F lgure 1 is a perspective View of a closed receptacle embodying my invention,

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of said receptacle partly opened, and

Fig. 3 is a perspective of such a receptacle broken open for discharging its contents.

I have shown my invention applied to a box of the type in which articles are recelved in a slide or tray which in turn is received in an inclosing box or' shell. In the drawings the numeral 4- indicates the slide for receiving articles such as cartridges 5. The slide is housed in a shell 6 the ends of which may be closed by a flap 7 glued in place or if preferred held against the end of the slide by an integral tab 8 as is common. The construction described so far is the usual receptacle of this type which may be readily opened by loosening the flap 7 and pushing out the slide as in Fig. 2.

In order to permit of quick and easy opening, I have formed the receptacle with a weakened section-preferably by providing a series of perforations 9 in the shell 6 extending substantially around the shell near its middle portion. The cartridges are arranged upright in the box and they therefore do not reinforce the box against twist-- ing or bending stresses in the plane of the perforations. -I have found that where the receptacle is to be used for rather heavy articles like cartridges that it is preferable to perforate only the shell because if the slide is also perforated the receptacle may not be strong enough for transportation and handling. It is to be understood, however, that 'I do not. limit my invention to this particular construction. If the material of the shelland slide is suitable and the size and spacing of the erforations is correctly determined, the per orations may be applied" therein" in substantially parallel; relation comprising an--- article recelving slide and a shell'for receiving said, slide comprising bottom, top, side and end walls, one of said end walls being so constructed as'to enable it to be opened for'removal of the cartridges and the bottom, top and side walls being formed with a weakened section in a plane parallel to the longitudinal axes of the cartridges contained therein, whereby the receptacle may be broken or twisted apart in the plane of the weakened section. a

2. A receptacle comprising bottom, top, side and end walls, one of said end Walls being so constructed as to enable it to .be opened and the bottom, top and side walls being formed with a weakened section, and

cartridges in said receptacle in substantially parallel relation to each other and to the plane of the weakened'section.

3. A receptacle comprising bottom, top, sidev and end walls, the box being so constructed as to enable it to be opened and the bottom, top and side Walls being formed with a weakened section, and cartridgesin said receptacle in substantially parallel relation to each other and to the plane of'the' weakened section.

. In witness whereof I have signed m name hereto this 24 day of September 1919.

WALTER E. INGLIS. 

